roguecoder

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by roguecoder 9mo ago
The best "architects" serve as facilitators, rather than deciding themselves how software is built. They have to be reading the code, but they don't themselves have to be coding to be effective. You don't need one until
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by roguecoder 9mo ago
This is where an architect is useful, because they can ask "why?" Sometimes there is a reason! Sometimes there isn't a reason, but it might be something we want to move everything over to if it works well and will rip out if
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by roguecoder 9mo ago
Why are you rewriting the same application a second time? I've personally yet to have a situation where that comes up. And every application I've ever worked on has its architecture evolve over time, as behavior changes and new do
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by roguecoder 9mo ago
XP putting a customer on the team was the best thing in the methodology. Replacing those with business representatives is one of Scrum's original sins.
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by roguecoder 9mo ago
The problem isn't programmers: it is cheap-ass executives obsessed with compliance. Good software designers are facilitators. They don't tell people how to build software, but say "not like that" by making the technical
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by roguecoder 9mo ago
No: I've been at plenty of places where we get to continuous deployment, where any given change is deployed on demand. What is wild is that they are deploying without first testing in a staging environment.
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by roguecoder 9mo ago
I have seen issues like that. Rebooting has always fixed it, but it is notable. I really wish they would hire a strong frontend team. I can almost always figure out what happened just from the signal, and it's usually a state machine g
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by roguecoder 9mo ago
It also suggests to me a more-professionalized R&D culture. Tesla claiming it planned to implement self-driving with just cameras has always meant I don't trust anything they touch.
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by roguecoder 9mo ago
HP did write their own operating system: HP RTE. It wasn't until decades later, after the platform became commodified and they stopped designing their own chips, that they went with someone else's. And of course, Microsoft made th
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by roguecoder 9mo ago
It is nice to see a car company investing in a sensor platform that could actually safely self-drive. It is unfortunate that the existing market participants seem hell-bent on destroying consumer confidence in self-driving before this will
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by roguecoder 9mo ago
Even just paying for the roads for these cars to drive on is a challenge with the lack-of-density they require. So many suburbs with large lot sizes just learn to live with the potholes.
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by roguecoder 9mo ago
Don't forget to create an index on the composite key [number, is_even]!
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by roguecoder 9mo ago
He is a pro-authoritian-control Democrat, so it is unsurprising that he is more worried about control of information than he is the Constitution. His background is in finance and his political goal is generally management of the country by
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by roguecoder 9mo ago
America has been subject to a thirty-year propaganda war by foreign actors. Information in America is free as in speech, not free as in beer: money talks louder than truth. That has let billionaires unravel the stabilizing features adopted
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by roguecoder 9mo ago
We aren't concerned only about existing addicts, but potential future addicts. Especially for something like social media with strong network effects, where decreasing use is non-linear. Banning substances dramatically decreases use:
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by roguecoder 9mo ago
That is Hank Green's Focus Friend is for, right? Adults actually are trying to solve this problem.
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by roguecoder 9mo ago
Do you have evidence that it hurts elsewhere? It isn't like the left was doing well in rural America before social media: people in the urban cores just didn't know what was going on there, and they didn't know what was going
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by roguecoder 9mo ago
And there are 31 year old Dems who sound like James Carville reincarnate. Unfortunately, the young Dems with the biggest fundraising rolodexes are usually the ones supported by the fundraising apparatus that already exists.
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by roguecoder 9mo ago
The toxic impact of Fox News is longitudinal, rather than being about a single election, and mostly acts by pushing conservative parties to the far right: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/fox-news-incomparable-rol...
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by roguecoder 9mo ago
It is less that it swings elections, though it has marginal effects via voter mobilization, and more that it keeps candidates from even running at all: https://data4democracy.substack.com/p/money-doesnt-buy-elect... Mo
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by roguecoder 9mo ago
Which is why parliamentary systems are so much more stable than first-past-the-post. They let voters express their preferences, and leave building the coalitions up to the politicians. Instead of expecting voters to understand that their pr
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by roguecoder 9mo ago
Social media has caused at least two genocides so far, and their data centers and AI slop are helping drive us towards an earth incapable of supporting human life. So what you are describing is just the base case.
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by roguecoder 9mo ago
Suppressing the evidence of it doesn't make it not so: https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/meta-project-mercury-sh...
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by roguecoder 9mo ago
That makes me wonder, if only teenagers could vote would they ban adults from social media?
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by roguecoder 9mo ago
Kids pretending to be adults know they are doing something wrong. They are likely to practice acting like adults, don't pressure each other to join, and are harder for predators to find.
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by roguecoder 9mo ago
If your children are being exposed to sexual and violent content in the real world, that is called an "Adverse Childhood Experience" and it is predictive of everything from poor adult earnings to heart disease: https://
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by roguecoder 9mo ago
I don't think we've shown that that cleanup is possible. Whenever platforms have taken even the smallest steps in that direction, the right-wing authoritarian political parties freak out and blackmail them into stopping, or in the
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by roguecoder 9mo ago
Ah yes, the genocides, fascists and blackmail are just delightful parts of that awesome internet that any kind of cooperative governance would simply _ruin_
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by roguecoder 9mo ago
Where did you grow up? Because America in the 80s was all about shutting teenagers out of violent video games and music with naughty words.
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by roguecoder 9mo ago
In America, we haven't made it illegal to assault children. We should, but we haven't.

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